Length vs Proportion - What's the difference?
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The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
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(horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
(mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
(cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
(figuratively) Total extent.
Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
(obsolete) To lengthen.
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(lb) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
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(lb) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
(lb) Proper or equal share.
*(Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
*:Let the womendo the same things in their proportions and capacities.
The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
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*(Lancelot Ridley) (ca.1500-1576)
*:The image of Christ, made after his own proportion .
*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
*:Formed in the best proportions of her sex.
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*:Documents are authentic and facts are true precisely in proportion to the support which they afford to his theory.
A statement of equality between two ratios.
Size.
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As nouns the difference between length and proportion
is that length is the distance measured along the longest dimension of an object while proportion is a quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.As verbs the difference between length and proportion
is that length is to lengthen while proportion is to set or render in proportion.length
English
Noun
(en noun)- Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length .
- the length of a book
- a length of rope
Derived terms
* arm's length * at length * cable length * feature-length * floor-length * focal length * full-length * good length * go to great lengths * half-length * knee-length * lengthen * lengthful * length overall * lengthways * lengthwise * lengthy * line and length * null patch length * overlength * path length * screening length * short of a length * wavelength * zero-length launchingVerb
(en verb)- Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.
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